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    John H Amos is a paddlewheel tugboat built in Scotland in 1931. The last paddlewheel tug built for private owners, now owned by the Medway Maritime Trust...
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    John Allen Amos Jr. (born December 27, 1939) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots...
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    John Amos Comenius (/kəˈmiːniəs/; Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; Polish: Jan Amos Komeński; German: Johann Amos Comenius; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius;...
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    over 300,000 visits each year. HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth...
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    HMS Victory (redirect from H.M.S. Victory)
    Captain Sir John Lindsay. He held that position until May 1778, when Admiral Augustus Keppel made her his flagship, and appointed Rear Admiral John Campbell...
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    (the other being the former Tees Conservancy Commissioners' vessel, PS John H Amos), she is preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical...
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    the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen...
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    begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest...
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  • The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition. According to...
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    21 hours, at an average speed of 9.25 knots (17.13 km/h; 10.64 mph) – almost 1.5 knots (2.8 km/h; 1.7 mph) slower than the prevailing record. She made...
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    mounting fifteen 6-inch (152 mm) guns with a top speed exceeding 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). The Admiralty's requirement called for a 9,000-ton cruiser, sufficiently...
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    Amos Lee (born Ryan Anthony Massaro, June 22, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk, rock, and soul. Lee has recorded...
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  • Thumbnail for TSS Duke of Lancaster (1955)
    circumvent the-then sunday trading laws as it did not apply to ships, the owner John Rowley saw this legal loophole. However, there were frequent legal battles...
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    (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph). Her greatest recorded distance in noon to noon sights was 363 nautical miles (672 km; 418 mi) averaging 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)...
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    Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the...
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     602. Owen, Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. (1873). The Principles and Practice of Modern Artillery (Second ed.). London: John Murray. p. 52. Lambert 1987, pp...
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    Amos (/ˈeɪməs/; Hebrew: עָמוֹס – ʿĀmōs) was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. According to the Bible, Amos...
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    propeller at up to 400 rpm. Top speed was 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) when submerged, and 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) on the surface. Eight 21-inch-diameter (53 cm)...
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    Rapid lifted a safety valve, reaching an average speed of 31.8 knots (58.9 km/h). After commissioning, she joined the 6th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the...
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    engine driving a single propeller, giving her a top speed of 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph). Sundowner was launched on 28 June 1930, and after trials on the...
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    packaging for Famous Amos cookies. Wally Amos has 4 children: Michael Amos, Gregory Amos, Sarah Amos, and musician Shawn Amos. Amos had lived in Hawaii...
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    Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, LG, CH, PC (born 13 March 1954) is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General...
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    HMS Holland 1 (redirect from HMS (H)1)
    functional after being cleaned and recharged. She was ordered in 1901 from John Philip Holland and built at Barrow-in-Furness. Her keel was laid down 4 February...
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    Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-15653-8. Carpenter, M. Scott; Cooper, L. Gordon Jr.; Glenn, John H. Jr.; Grissom,...
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  • "Jesse Lumb". National Historic Ships UK. Retrieved 29 July 2017. "John H Amos History". Medway Maritime Trust. Retrieved 21 September 2016. "The Working...
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    Tramp to Queen autobiography by Capt. John Treasure Jones, The History Press (2008) ISBN 978 0 7524 4625 7 Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships...
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    shaft horsepower (22,000 kW), giving a speed of 29.5 knots (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h). Crew was about 212 officers and men. A twin 4.5-inch (113 mm) Mark 6 gun...
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    oil on canvas, 2000 St. John's Church, Chatham, oil on canvas, 2000 Tea Drinker, High Atlas, oil on canvas, 2007 John H Amos 2, oil on canvas, 2008 In...
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    Amos J. Hochstein (born January 4, 1973) is an Israeli-American businessman, diplomat, and former lobbyist. Currently the Deputy Assistant to the President...
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    ISBN 978-1853670282. Kempton, John (2014). "The War Years". Medway Queen Preservation Society. Retrieved 11 September 2014. Kempton, John. "Dunkirk - Operation...
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